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GPU workloads on AWS Batch
Contributed by Manuel Manzano Hoss, Cloud Support Engineer I remember playing around with graphics processing units (GPUs) workload examples in 2017 when the Deep Learning on AWS Batch post was published by my colleague Kiuk Chung. He provided an example of how to train a convolutional neural network (CNN), the LeNet architecture, to recognize handwritten digits […]
A Guide to Locally Testing Containers with Amazon ECS Local Endpoints and Docker Compose
This post is contributed by Wesley Pettit, Software Engineer at AWS. As more companies adopt containers, developers need easy, powerful ways to test their containerized applications locally, before they deploy to AWS. Today, the containers team is releasing the first tool dedicated to this: Amazon ECS Local Container Endpoints. This is part of an ongoing open […]
Running your game servers at scale for up to 90% lower compute cost
This post is contributed by Yahav Biran, Chad Schmutzer, and Jeremy Cowan, Solutions Architects at AWS Many successful video games such Fortnite: Battle Royale, Warframe, and Apex Legends use a free-to-play model, which offers players access to a portion of the game without paying. Such games are no longer low quality and require premium-like quality. […]
Building a scalable log solution aggregator with AWS Fargate, Fluentd, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
February 12, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This post is contributed by Wesley Pettit, Software Dev Engineer, and a maintainer of the Amazon ECS CLI. […]
Scalable deep learning training using multi-node parallel jobs with AWS Batch and Amazon FSx for Lustre
Contributed by Amr Ragab, HPC Application Consultant, AWS Professional Services How easy is it to take an AWS reference architecture and implement a production solution? At re:Invent 2018, Toyota Research Institute presented their production DL HPC architecture. This was based on a reference architecture for a scalable, deep learning, high performance computing solution, released earlier […]
Working with AWS Lambda and Lambda Layers in AWS SAM
The introduction of serverless technology has enabled developers to shed the burden of managing infrastructure and concentrate on their application code. AWS Lambda has taken on that management by providing isolated, event-driven compute environments for the execution of application code. To use a Lambda function, a developer just needs to package their code and any […]
Learn about hourly-replication in Server Migration Service and the ability to migrate large data volumes
This post courtesy of Shane Baldacchino, AWS Solutions Architect AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) is an agentless service that makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you […]
Migrate Wildfly Cluster to Amazon ECS using Service Discovery
This post is courtesy of Vidya Narasimhan, AWS Solutions Architect 1. Overview Java Enterprise Edition has been an important server-side platform for over a decade for developing mission-critical & large-scale applications amongst enterprises. High-availability & fault tolerance for such applications is typically achieved through built-in JEE clustering provided by the platform. JEE clustering represents a […]
Migrating your Amazon ECS deployment to the new ARN and resource ID format
Update – August 21, 2020 – Added a section with the latest timeline. Starting today you can opt in to a new Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and resource ID format for Amazon ECS tasks, container instances, and services. The new format enables the enhanced ability to tag resources in your cluster, as well as tracking […]
Encrypting messages published to Amazon SNS with AWS KMS
Post by Otavio Ferreira, Software Development Manager, Amazon SNS — Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service for decoupling event-driven microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. To address the requirements of highly critical workloads, Amazon SNS provides message encryption in transit, based on Amazon Trust Services (ATS) certificates, as well as message encryption at rest, using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys.





